> EXPLAIN ALTER TABLE ?
Good thing: People recognize it.
Bad thing: People might not be able to tell the difference between a DDL and DML result.
What about "EXPLAIN DDL ..."?
The extra keyword ("DDL") makes it a bit more explicit that the
results are not comparable to the standard explain output.
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